3mo ago

Libre GUI Linux program to convert animated GIF to animated Webp?

My image viewer (Xviewer) is sufficient for converting still images to still Webp by just "Save as...", but Xviewer and Pinta only produce still single-frame webps from animated GIFs.

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gif2webp seems to be able to do it.
- Not GUI. But maybe still preferable to installing GIMP.
Gimp can export the gif as webp.
- I'd really rather avoid something as complex as GIMP. The last time I tried it, the menus had so many options they didn't even fit on my screen!
  But beggars can't be choosers, might have to bite the bullet.
  
  Initially, I avoided gimp as well.
  But I was looking at gimp the wrong way. I wanted to know it all and I wanted it to be intuitive.
  Gimp is a Swiss army knife. You won't always need all the tools, and many of them you won't even know are there.
  But with time and new quests you'll start to add the functionalities of gimp to your own toolbox.
https://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?t=22597
not GUI, but the CLI looks simple.
If it can't convert to WebP, just make PNGs and convert those to WebP later with something else.
- I decided to bite the bullet and install Gimp. Converting formats and resizing take a while (I think due to my puny hardware processing the image) but it gets the job done.
  
  easier than convert img.gif -coalesce img/xx_%05d.png ?
  If you want a nice tool for conversion and photo management, try https://www.xnview.com/en/xnviewmp/#downloads ... it's not open source, but it is free (there are some buttons for appimage and deb). You use the "batch convert" tool for what you need, and it has a lot of image editing in there... filters, resize, crops, formats, watermarks. (Not that gif to frames thing)
The website Convertio.co works for me
- Yeah, lots of websites out there. Personally I had success with ezgif.com. But I'm hoping for a local tool, went ahead and installled Gimp, and after tweaking a few options in the "Export As..." window, I was able to get the file size much lower than ezgif.

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